This novel is horrifying and hilarious. It has been bProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 ned over and over again by American schools. Slaughterhouse is based on Kurt Vonnegut's experience as prisoner of war in Dresden, German during World War II. He was in Dresden during the controversial Dresden Bombings in February 1945.
Here are some links to get us started in thinking about this American masterpiece.
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace, Taking, as Jesus did, This sinful world as it is, Not as I would have it, Trusting that You will make all things right, If I surrender to Your will, So that I may be reasonably happy in this life, And supremely happy with You fore
Slaughterhouse-Five
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
by Wallace Stevens
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/stevens-13ways.html
Burning Slaughterhouse-Five--Vonnegut's Letter to School Board
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/30/kurt-vonnegut-letter-to-drake-high-school_n_1392557.html
Fate/Free Will Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufkrJkVqems&feature=related
Final Essay on Slaughterhouse-Five
Overview
This novel is horrifying and hilarious. It has been bProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 ned over and over again by American schools. Slaughterhouse is based on Kurt Vonnegut's experience as prisoner of war in Dresden, German during World War II. He was in Dresden during the controversial Dresden Bombings in February 1945.Here are some links to get us started in thinking about this American masterpiece.
Wikipedia Entry for the Dresden Bombings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II
Battle of the Bulge:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge
Kurt Vonnegut Quotes:
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Kurt_Vonnegut/
2007 Interview with Kurt Vonnegut:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9567370
Online Text (helps to find quotes- type the word your looking for in the "find" box at the top right...)
http://www.zenithformation.es/upload/lecturas/CIQA_Vonnegut,%20Kurt%20-%20Slaughterhouse-Five.pdf
Dresden: A Good, Fairly Realistic Movie from the Perspective of Germans & Americans
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0461658/
Pan's Labyrinth Script
www.dailyscript.com/scripts/PansLabyrinthEnglishScreenplay.pdfMemento (2000)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/The Full Original Copy of the Serenity Prayer
by Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
God, give us grace to accept with serenitythe things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You fore